Traveling at the speed of light in Blender

Simple, silly, but looks quite cool!

Take a scene, set up a camera, go to the World buttons view, add a texture (with an image associated with it). Click on the Map To tab, and make sure that only the "Hori" button is toggled on. Instant background.

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Now, let's tell Scotty to turn on the light speed engines, so flip to the "Texture and Input" tab, and change the "View" toggled button to "AngMap".

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Play with the dX, sizeX, dY, and sizeY values and you can get something like this:

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